Egypt
Art Museum Journal (Stan Parchin)
- Howard Carter's Records Of Tutankhamun
New Zealand Herald The man who discovered Tutankhamun's tomb spent 10 years documenting the thousands of artefacts buried with the boy king. But his research lay neglected for decades. Jo Merchant meets the team of Oxford archaeologists finally revealing...
- Study The Contents Of Tutankhamun's Tomb Online
The Guardian, UK (Jo Marchant) From the circular main hall of the Sackler Library in Oxford, an unassuming corridor leads to a staircase that takes you down below street level. Through a door marked "archive", office ceiling tiles and fluorescent lights...
- Exhibition: The General Who Became King
Art Museum Journal (Stan Parchin) With photos. The ambitious successor of Pharaoh Tutankhamun (r. 1332-1323 B.C.) is the subject of Haremhab, The General Who Became King, opening November 10, 2010 at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art. This landmark...
- Statue Of Ptah
Art Museum Journal (Stan Parchin) Photograph and description. The number of deities in ancient Egypt's pantheon was myriad. Popular devotion to Ptah, the patron god of artists and craftsmen, distinguished him from the hundreds of others since the...
- Tutankhamun & Amarna Period Books
Bibliography prepared by Stan Parchin The ceaseless fascination with ancient Egyptian art and civilization during the revolutionary age of the "heretic" pharaoh Akhenaten (r. 1353-1336 B.C.) and Tutankhamun (r. 1332-1322 B.C.) continues to inspire extensive...
Egypt
Book Review: Tutankhamun: The Story of Egyptology's Greatest Discovery
Art Museum Journal (Stan Parchin)
Malek, Jaromir. Tutankhamun: The Story of Egyptology's Greatest Discovery. London: Carlton Books Limited, 2009.
Egyptian, New Kingdom, Dynasty 18 (ca. 1332-1323 B.C.). Gold Mask of Tutankhamun. Gold, lapis lazuli, colored glass, faience, quartz, carnelian, obsidian and feldspar. H. 50.4 cm; W. 39.3 cm. Thebes, Valley of the Kings, Tomb of Tutankhamun (KV 62). Egyptian Museum, Cairo. Photograph by Lee Boltin.
Tutankhamun: The Story of Egyptology's Greatest Discovery by Jaromir Malek is one of the best hardcover introductions to the life of ancient Egypt's boy-king (r. 1332-1323 B.C.) and the archaeology of his tomb. The author is Keeper of the Archives at the Griffith Institute of Oxford University's recently refurbished and greatly expanded Ashmolean Museum. The British repository's collection of vintage black & white photographs documenting the excavation of Tutankhamun's burial rivals that of New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art. Malek takes full advantage of important pictures from various sources for his lively and informative text. Thankfully he uses Lee Boltin's color image of the pharaoh's Gold Mask from the landmark special exhibition Treasures of Tutankhamun (1976-79). The photograph remains unsurpassed in its clarity.
- Howard Carter's Records Of Tutankhamun
New Zealand Herald The man who discovered Tutankhamun's tomb spent 10 years documenting the thousands of artefacts buried with the boy king. But his research lay neglected for decades. Jo Merchant meets the team of Oxford archaeologists finally revealing...
- Study The Contents Of Tutankhamun's Tomb Online
The Guardian, UK (Jo Marchant) From the circular main hall of the Sackler Library in Oxford, an unassuming corridor leads to a staircase that takes you down below street level. Through a door marked "archive", office ceiling tiles and fluorescent lights...
- Exhibition: The General Who Became King
Art Museum Journal (Stan Parchin) With photos. The ambitious successor of Pharaoh Tutankhamun (r. 1332-1323 B.C.) is the subject of Haremhab, The General Who Became King, opening November 10, 2010 at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art. This landmark...
- Statue Of Ptah
Art Museum Journal (Stan Parchin) Photograph and description. The number of deities in ancient Egypt's pantheon was myriad. Popular devotion to Ptah, the patron god of artists and craftsmen, distinguished him from the hundreds of others since the...
- Tutankhamun & Amarna Period Books
Bibliography prepared by Stan Parchin The ceaseless fascination with ancient Egyptian art and civilization during the revolutionary age of the "heretic" pharaoh Akhenaten (r. 1353-1336 B.C.) and Tutankhamun (r. 1332-1322 B.C.) continues to inspire extensive...